External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will come face to face with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto for the first time on July 28, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Ministerial meeting in Tashkent, where all eyes are on whether the two Ministers will hold a separate meeting, as well as a possible second meeting this month between Dr. Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Dr. Jaishankar and Mr. Wang met on July 7 to discuss the two-year-old standoff at the Line of Actual Control and other issues between India and China, a meeting that was followed by the 16th round of Commander-level talks that had been held up for some months.
“[The SCO Ministers] will review ongoing cooperation in expansion of the SCO Organisation and exchange ideas on regional and global developments of common concern,” an MEA statement announcing Mr. Jaishankar’s visit to Uzbekistan said.
